When Einar Bjarnasson was born on 8 August 1856, in Kirkjuland, Rangárvallasýsla, Southern, Iceland, his father, Bjarni Bjarnason, was 35 and his mother, Katrín Jonsdóttir, was 32. He died on 31 January 1876, at the age of 19.
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From an Old Norse personal name from einn ‘one, alone’ + herr ‘army, warrior’.
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